The state of Florida is the state with the third highest unemployment rate in the United States. The state unemployment insurance coffers are empty and the government has already started borrowing from the federal unemployment insurance trust fund to cover current unemployment insurance benefits. In an effort to curve this trend and lower the burden of unemployment insurance on businesses and the state treasury the state has followed the lead of several other states and reduced the unemployment insurance entitlement of Florida unemployed workers.

As of 2012 the maximum number of weeks of unemployment benefits available to Florida unemployed workers will no longer be 26 weeks as now, but 23 weeks. However, the Florida unemployment insurance program will not offer 23 weeks automatically, it will depend on the current unemployment rate. The idea is that during periods of low unemployment rate, unemployed workers receive less weeks of benefits than when the unemployment rate is high, because finding a job should be easier during periods of low unemployment than when unemployment is high.

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